Drugs can be bad. Like Heroin. And sometimes the antitode for a bad drug is a less bad drug, like Methadone.
Using the same reasoning, Marijuana could be legalized to fund a solution to the Meth problem?
Just saw the News Hour bit on methamphetamine about how congress left a loophole in the ephendrine regulation, so that meth labs could keep their ingredients legally available and the corporate suppliers stayed rich. Sort of a "Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell-Drug Policy." Apparently Oregon stood up to the problem and made ephedrine illegal on its own. A, O, way to go Oregon!
Hard to fathom maybe, but across the country Meth is getting worse. Invasion-of-the-Body-Snatchers worse. Meth is winning the War on Drugs by a landslide in terms of the damage it inflicts on society, in dollars and otherwise. Meanwhile your tax dollars are spent on billions on propaganda and enforcement...curbing Marijuana use. I just saw an anti-Marijuana ad about a kid who smoked pot and was persuaded by his friends to swallow his fist(wasn't peer pressure the culprit?). A meth-head should be so lucky as have such a silly problem.
But that's the status quo.
How about running on the platform of closing that loophole, legalizing marijuana and hemp, and dedicating the entire combined tax revenues/legal system savings towards treating the Meth Problem? Attack the epidemic from two sides: clamp down at the source while beating the crap out of the actual trade through a combination of well-funded prevention, treatment, and enforcement activities- all thanks to a mere weed.
If we try fighting Marijuana and Meth, we continue to lose on both fronts. Instead, make Marijuana an ally to take on Meth. What say we go for a radical solution, deal with the real problem, and try winning at least one battle in the "War on Drugs"?